Sir Caloy Aureus’ 100 Books You Should Read Before You Die

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   Dominique | February 1, 2012 at 6:25 pm

   Hi! I came across your website because I read your Youngblood article. This is so cool! Sir Aureus was my professor in English 1, one of the most memorable experience in my college life.

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   nadnad | September 5, 2011 at 6:32 pm

   aray ko. shame on my favors. don nyo ko naalala… hahaha.
   i’ll look forward to that list, and your future posts…more power ms. ai!

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     ai | December 12, 2011 at 5:08 am

     not only that. i remember you as a fierce, strong young lady whose eyes have lots of stories to tell, and whose ears can be so sharp as to catch the most important ideas of the day.
     thanks for dropping by!

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   ai | September 5, 2011 at 4:25 am

   @nadnad: ooooooooooh nadisha! you are one of those i will never forget. hahaha (you got a lot of favors from me ha. hahaha)
   alam mo, that is a good idea. sige nga. before this year ends haha ill come up with my own list. but compared to dr. aureus up there, i havent read THAT much.
   LOL at 5 books ive read. i was trying to highlight the others, they wont turn red for crying out loud. maybe the books want me to read them again.

   @Rene: and to introduce the prof more (and to answer Rene’s contention above, October 5, 2009 at 1:09 pm) Caloy Aureus has judged several Palanca literary competitions and he’s one of the top-caliber teachers of UP Diliman’s English Comparative Literature Department, and above all these, he’s a dedicated lover of arts esp. literature.

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   nadnad | September 4, 2011 at 6:12 pm

   very long I guess. Sabi ko pa naman, hindi na masama na 2 pa lang nabasa ko sa mga to, si mam nga 5 pa lang eh. hehehe.
   i would very much appreciate if you will have your own list of books worth reading, a list from not a physicist. you told us in eng2 i remember that if we want a list of books to read, we can ask you, but i wasn’t interested with books that time. oops sorry im ur female stalker, hahaha, nadisha )

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   ai | September 4, 2011 at 3:37 am

   hmmm wait a minute. others titles lost their red highlight! haha i wonder how long this has been. in my list now, it looks like ive just read 5 of them. lol

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   nadnad | September 3, 2011 at 4:59 pm

   So Sophie’s world, I guess, will not discourage me (wont make me feel guilty of the money I spent). Most of the books listed here are super academic (Einstein, Newton – that’s why there’s doubt kung maiintindihan ko ba ang librong yon). Noli at Fili pa lang nabasa ko kasi required. Les Miserables and Shakespeares have been in the house since I was child, maybe it’s time to read them. A very big thank you Ms. Ai. Anyway, I’m your former Eng2 student slash stalker. hehe

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     ai | December 12, 2011 at 5:10 am

     Oh, that’s lovely to hear, that we’ve ‘worked’ together before.
     Haha no, you shouldn’t have any regrets buying the novel because it’s worth it.
     And yeah, I believe some of these are a little academic, more scientific than fictional, but that’s because of my former professor’s Physics degree–he’s both in love with science and literature/arts. Amazing minds we have around, probably including you, nadnad/dandan?

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   ai | August 31, 2011 at 4:31 am

   sophie’s world is a good start, nadnad. you don’t really have to buy all these 100. some of them you can borrow, some of them you can read in the library, some of them you can receive as gifts. if you ask me right now, it’s also ok to skip some of these 100books to give way to other equally compelling books such as Sophie’s World.

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     nadnad | December 11, 2011 at 3:59 pm

     finished sophie’s world and it’s great! well, a prof of mine told me the list was impossible, madami daw books jan na uulitin ng mdming beses bago maintindihan. He sounds credible but i still want to give it a try… it made me curious, nabasa na kaya ni sir caloy lahat ito? then its possible.

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       ai | December 12, 2011 at 5:08 am

       wow, congratulations! it’s impossible if you don’t find time to read them. your prof has a nice point, that you have to re-read them. classics are precisely meant to be re-read, says italo calvino. and whatever book you read, nadnad, the meaning and the appeal almost always changes when you re-read depending on the time of your life you read it. read sophie’s world again when you are 30 years older and lets see if you see it the same way..
       im sure prof aureus has read them all.
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   nadnad | August 30, 2011 at 8:18 pm

   your blog again proved its usefulness. I have been thinking of “my first book ever bought,” i’m sorry but i just had started reading. I was thinking of Sophie’s World but upon reading this, I would like to buy all of these 100 (at least before I die).

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   Gary | October 13, 2009 at 1:10 pm

   Les Miserables pa lang nabasa ko ma’am. P

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    toni | October 7, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    matatapos ko ba yan lahat…before i die??? :O

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    rene | October 5, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    I do not know why your professor thinks people SHOULD read those, or what his authority is to make such a list, ’cause it should go like, “100 books that I THINK you should read before you die”, but I read about 40% of the list, if translations, revised edisions, or explanations (in the case of einstein’s works or similar stuff) are to be included.

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    aimac | October 1, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    Me, too! Faust and the Divine Comedy and Das Capital! this koji lizuka must have a beautiful mind.

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    Koji A. Iizuka | September 30, 2009 at 5:12 am

    I’ve only read one of them. How embarrassing. But I’ve always wanted to read John Milton’s Paradise Lost (and of course Alighieri’s Divine Comedy) and von Goethe’s Faust.

    And yes, Marx’s Das Kapital.

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    aimac | September 29, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    oh yeah! mere possession of these is a sign of fine taste and sensibility! which of them have you read?

    many of them sound nakakaantok but many will jolt you awake for more than 24 hours.

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    elmot | September 29, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    I think I would want to own all these books though I have read some of them…anyone who owns all 100 of them is very blessed.

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    cj brosas | September 29, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    parang makakatulog ako bago makabasa ng isa sa mga to.

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